I develop web applications, and I am sorry but IE is far slower than Firefox, on every level. And ask ANY web developer about the problems encountered almost daily with any IE. Although Firefox does have a memory leak, which is also well known, and will hopefully be fixed with v.3.
Uh.. I have news for you. C and/or C++ are far from outdated. If you are using Firefox, which you should be then you are using a program written in C++ which still uses all the fundamentals of C (e.g. pointers, structs, etc). Any game engine worth mentioning is written in C++. As a matter of fact the majority of all software is written in C++.
"...Outlook, a few putty sessions, Pidgin and Firefox. On XP I'd still be under 512."
OK I'm sorry but I am gonna call bullshit on that. Right now this very second I am running 3 putty windows, firefox (with 2 tabs open), and I am using 560 mb of ram. I am wondering if Vista is really using that much more RAM than XP or is it that Vista made it so easy to get that information (the side bar, and the Task Manager in Vista tells you the % of Ram used unlike XP) and therefore more noticeable.
Obviously you are not an engineering student. It get much more difficult that the basic ideas you are describing "...(create an algorithm that produces the proper results in the proper time|make the bridge stay standing|chose the correct materials for the project|make the parts fit together)". I am not saying that an average grade of.07% isn't absolutely ridiculous, but that is kind of the far end of the spectrum. It is not uncommon to see some low averages in higher level CS courses (50-60%), there are many reasons for this which I am not going to get into right now since I am at work.
Why would we need fossil fuel plants to compress air? You can get an air compressor at Home Depot for ~$200. Also the car has an air compressor built in (which I believe takes around 4 hours to completely refill both tanks). Most people drive between 20-40 miles a day, not 800 - 1000 it's the daily commute that is using up most of the oil.
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I develop web applications, and I am sorry but IE is far slower than Firefox, on every level. And ask ANY web developer about the problems encountered almost daily with any IE. Although Firefox does have a memory leak, which is also well known, and will hopefully be fixed with v.3.
Uh .. I have news for you. C and/or C++ are far from outdated. If you are using Firefox, which you should be then you are using a program written in C++ which still uses all the fundamentals of C (e.g. pointers, structs, etc). Any game engine worth mentioning is written in C++. As a matter of fact the majority of all software is written in C++.
"...Outlook, a few putty sessions, Pidgin and Firefox. On XP I'd still be under 512." OK I'm sorry but I am gonna call bullshit on that. Right now this very second I am running 3 putty windows, firefox (with 2 tabs open), and I am using 560 mb of ram. I am wondering if Vista is really using that much more RAM than XP or is it that Vista made it so easy to get that information (the side bar, and the Task Manager in Vista tells you the % of Ram used unlike XP) and therefore more noticeable.
Obviously you are not an engineering student. It get much more difficult that the basic ideas you are describing "...(create an algorithm that produces the proper results in the proper time|make the bridge stay standing|chose the correct materials for the project|make the parts fit together)". I am not saying that an average grade of .07% isn't absolutely ridiculous, but that is kind of the far end of the spectrum. It is not uncommon to see some low averages in higher level CS courses (50-60%), there are many reasons for this which I am not going to get into right now since I am at work.
Why would we need fossil fuel plants to compress air? You can get an air compressor at Home Depot for ~$200. Also the car has an air compressor built in (which I believe takes around 4 hours to completely refill both tanks). Most people drive between 20-40 miles a day, not 800 - 1000 it's the daily commute that is using up most of the oil.